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When the Trump administration moves to dismantle it Education Departmentauthorities suggest that other agencies can take over their primary responsibility. Probably civil rights enforcement to the Department of Justice. Student loans to finance or commercial. Monitoring student disability rights to health and human services.It is not very clear what will happen in the more lofty parts of that mission. This promotes equal access for students in the fundamentally unequal American education system.The department cut its workforce in half. 1,300 layoffs It was announced on Tuesday. President Donald Trump pledged to eliminate the division completely during his campaign, and wasted it,…
NEW YORK (AP) — When protests against the Israeli-Hamas War took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil quickly became a familiar and outspoken figure in the student movement that spreads to other US universities.Graduate students with international disabilities: Protest Camp On the Manhattan Campus in Columbia Act as a spokesman and negotiator For demonstrators who lamented Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and forced Evie League schools to cut economic ties with Israel and the businesses that supported the war.”We want to be visible.” Halil said Last April.That vision helped him to become the face of President Donald…
A ransomware group called Hunters International has released some of the data it claims to have been stolen from Tata Technologies just a month after an Indian company confirmed a ransomware attack that caused several services to halt. The leak data published on the gang’s Dark Web leak site seen by TechCrunch includes personal information about current and former employees of Tata Technologies, as well as confidential information such as purchase orders and company contracts with clients in India and the US. According to the ransomware gang, the dataset contains over 730,000 documents, including Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDF…
March 12, 2025Ravi LakshmananEndpoint security/vulnerability On Tuesday, Apple released a security update to address the zero-day flaws that it said were exploited in a “very sophisticated” attack. The vulnerability is assigned to the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24201 and is rooted in the WebKit Web Browser Engine component. This is said to be a no-no writing problem that could allow attackers to create malicious web content so they can get out of the web content sandbox. Apple said it resolved an issue with improved checks to prevent unauthorized actions. It also pointed out that it is a supplementary fix to an attack…
Search for missing surfers after evidence of bite marks is found on the SURF board.Australian police confirmed that the missing surfer was “taken by a shark” after search and rescue teams retrieved a surfboard that was wounded by a “biting mark” from the area of the attack. The victim, identified by Australian media as 37-year-old Stephen Payne, was attacked by a shark while surfing in Wharton Beach, a remote Western Australian area, police said late Tuesday. This has reported Australia’s fourth deadly shark attack in recent months. “We can see that our search is recovery rather than rescue,” said senior…
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the administration will work with the US Congress to abolish the department.The U.S. Department of Education has announced that President Donald Trump will fire almost half of his employees as he moves to fulfill his campaign promise to dismantle the agency. The department said Tuesday that it will reduce the size of its workforce to around 2,183 by staffing its administrative leave starting March 21. It said it will continue to offer “all statutory programs” that are within its scope, including student loans and funding for special needs students. The cuts follow similar…
Portugal’s central right government could lose its vote of trust in Parliament and push the European Union (EU) nation into its third general election in three years. The government “stricken everything to the end to avoid the snap election,” Portugal’s central right prime minister, Luis Montenegro, told reporters after voting Tuesday evening. The lawmaker voted 142-88 with abstain from zero for the confidence move Montenegro presented after the opposition parties questioned the integrity of his deal in relation to the consulting company he founded. Portuguese media have reported allegations that the company currently run by Montenegro’s sons has contracts with…
The pro-business Democratit Party, which supports a slow approach to independence from Denmark, wins the election.The opposition Democratit Party on the centre right of Greenland won a parliamentary election hidden by President Donald Trump’s pledge to rule the strategically placed Arctic Island. Demokratit, known as Probusiness and supporting a slow approach to independence from Denmark, won 29.9% of votes after Tuesday’s election, Reuters reports 29.9% of votes ahead of the opposition Narerak Party, which supports rapid independence at 24.5% after all votes were counted. “People want change… we want more businesses to fund our welfare,” said Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is canceling research into ways to improve vaccine trust and access. Large measles outbreak It is fueled to unvaccinated children.Researchers with grants from the National Institutes of Health are studying why they are asking questions and fearing about vaccines, and how they are studying how to help people who want to get vaccinated overcome barriers.The step first reported by the Washington Post, which cited dozens of expected cancellations, is quite unusual.”It is NIH’s policy to not prioritize research activities that focus on gaining scientific knowledge about why individuals are Hesitant to get vaccinated Exploring…
The AI momentum caused by the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 is still growing stronger, with no signs of slowing down. Less than three months into 2025, the sector is already bustling with mergers and acquisitions. Key players and rising competitors are moving rapidly, snapping AI startups to enhance their technical capabilities. These transactions reflect fierce competition and rapid advances in areas such as generation AI and specialized applications. This is a breakdown of the top 10 AI startup acquisitions so far, based on the latest industry insights. High-tech company acquisition: How small teams won more than $100 million…